Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the ship's computer became overloaded. Few were more nervous ...
Imagine that it’s the mid-1960s, and NASA has hired you to help put a man on the moon. Flying a spacecraft is incredibly complicated. If the trajectory is even one ...
Apollo 11's source code is now freely available to everyone on GitHub, and the manned moon landing project hides some quirky bits and pieces in its code. What surprises most when looking at the ...
In a fun bit of software archaeology, former NASA intern Chris Garry uploaded the entire Apollo 11 flight guidance source code on GitHub. While the source code has been available for some time, its ...
The system responsible for the first moon landing is now readily available online, after an enterprising former NASA intern uploaded the Apollo Guidance Computer code to Github this week. One ...
The programming code that controlled the flight software for Apollo 11 had been uploaded to the popular code sharing website GitHub for the first time. The uploaded code not only give programmers ...
Elaine Denniston, possessing only a high school education, worked as a keypuncher at MIT's Instrumentation Lab during the Apollo program, inputting code onto punch cards from engineers' handwritten ...
Imagine that it’s the mid-1960s, and NASA has hired you to help put a man on the moon. Flying a spacecraft is incredibly complicated. If the trajectory is even one ...
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